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Carlos Saura’s exquisite Cría cuervos… heralded a turning point in Spain: Shot while General Franco was on his deathbed, the film melds the personal and the political in a portrait of the legacy of fascism and its effects on a middle-class family (the title derives from the Spanish proverb: "Raise ravens and they’ll peck out your eyes"). Ana Torrent (the dark-eyed beauty from The Spirit of the Beehive) portrays the disturbed eight-year-old Ana, living in Madrid with her two sisters and mourning the death of her mother, whom she conjures as a ghost (played by an ethereal Geraldine Chaplin). Seamlessly shifting between fantasy and reality, the film subtly evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows.
Reader Reviews
I watched this movie a couple of times, for the first time back in mid 1970s while in high school. I was moved already then but probably did not understood everything "properly". Recently my wife and I watched the movie in its DVD format and I still recommend it very much - it combines social and psychological analysis of Spain during Franco dictatorship.
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Cria Cuervos (Criterion Collection)
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Price: $26.99
Updated on 11-14-2008.
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